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Conservative pundit Ann Coulter has launched an attack on Donald Trump, calling the former president a "liar and con man" after he criticized politicians who refuse to say whether they've received a COVID-19 booster shotan apparent swipe at Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

Trump made the comments during an interview on the One America News Network, condemning "gutless" public figures who won't confirm or deny if they have had the third dose of the vaccine.

He said: "I've had the booster. Many politiciansI watched a couple of politicians be interviewed and one of the questions was, 'Did you get the booster?' because they had the vaccine, and they're answering like In other words, the answer is 'yes' but they don't want to say it because they're gutless."

Although Trump did not mention DeSantis by name, the remarks are thought to be in part directed at the governor, who has swerved questions about whether he has had a booster shot in recent weeks.

Coulter, who was once a staunch supporter of Trump but turned on him for his failure to act on his promise to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, mocked him for the booster remarks on Twitter on Wednesday.

"EXCLUSIVE: Trump is demanding to know Ron DeSantis's booster status, and I can now reveal it," Coulter tweeted.

"He was a loyal booster when Trump ran in 2016, but then he learned our president was a liar and con man whose grift was permanent. I hope that clears things up."

Coulter, who published the fawning book In Trump We Trust, E Pluribus Awesome! in 2016, has levelled a numbers of insults at the former president in more recent years.

During an interview on Andrew Sullivan's Dishcast podcast on November 5, 2020, she called Trump "abjectly stupid" and accused him of "directly betraying his base" for not building the wall despite this being his main campaign promise.

In May 2020, Coulter described him as disloyal.

Newsweek has contacted Trump's office for comment.

DeSantis is one of the high-profile GOP lawmakers who have repeatedly dodged questions about whether they have had the COVID-19 booster, even though his office previously confirmed that he had a single dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine last April.

"I've done whatever I did, the normal shot, and that at the end of the day is people's individual decisions about what they want to do," DeSantis told Fox News' Morning Futures in December when asked about the booster.

In a statement to NBC regarding Trump's remarks, DeSantis' spokeswoman, Christina Pushaw, said: "President Trump did not mention Governor DeSantis in that interview, so I wouldn't want to make assumptions."

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Last week, we reviewed our ruling classs strange lack of interest in Jeffrey Epsteins child molestation ring, in which so many of them played a part. The media cover-up is second only to the government cover-up, with prosecutors delivering loss after loss in cases theyve been forced to bring (by the police and the public) against the accused child molester.

This week, well look at the governments long record of zealously trying NOT to unravel the case.

Barry Krischer was the first prosecutor to let Epstein off for child molestation. The local police presented then-Palm Beach state attorney Krischer withbales of evidence. They had affidavits from dozens of witnesses: girls abused by the pederast, the women who recruited them, the butler who cleaned upsex toysafter the massages, as well as records of Epsteins molestation appointments, one delayed because of a victims soccer practice.

Pretty much everything we know today about Epsteins sex ring was unearthed by the Palm Beach Police back in 2005 and handed to Krischer on a silver platter.

Protesters hold up signs of Jeffrey Epstein in front of the Federal courthouse on July 8, 2019 in New York City. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

Five underage girls had given police sworn statements that Epstein had sexually abused them, backed by 17 other witnesses, but when Krischer brought the case to the grand jury, weirdly, he allowed only one of the girls to testify and thenattacked her on the stand! (Epsteins attorneys had helpfully provided Krischers office with the girls posts on MySpace, where she talked aboutboysanddrinking, the little harlot.)

According to anextensive reviewby the Palm Beach Post, most of Krischers 2,800-page investigative file on the case consists ofdirt against the teens and against the police given to him by Epsteins lawyers.(Thanks, Epstein attorneys! Do we owe you anything?)

The grand jurors, whod been meticulously kept in the dark by Krischer, ended up voting only for a single charge of solicitation of prostitution against Epstein in 2006. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years probation. No jail time, no record as a sex offender no criminal record whatsoever.

According to Nexis, only one newspaper, the Palm Beach Post, reported at the time or ever that Palm Beach prosecutor Krischer gave Epsteinprobationfor his years of child abuse.

Epsteins friends claimed he was the victim of a crusade by Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter, whom they called a born-again nutcase. Apparently, anyone who thinks prison is appropriate for the mastermind of a massive child sex ring has gotta be born-again. (How does he feel about teenaged girls talking about boys and drinking?) In fact, theres no evidence that Reiter is even a Christian other than the fact that hes never won an award from the ADL.

(In 2018, theAnti-Defamation Leaguegave a Jurisprudence Award to Barry Krischer!The award praised him for exemplifying the principles upon which the Anti-Defamation League was founded.Hey,Jonathan Greenblatt, was Harvey Weinstein out of town?)

At that point, the enraged Palm Beach chief of police took his evidence to a completely separate law enforcement agency the federal government, even though these were mostly state crimes. U.S. attorney Alex Acosta proceeded to make a deal with Epstein with Krischer essentially operating asEpsteins defense counsel resulting in a plea only slightly tougher than Krischers pat on the head.

According to journalist Vicky Ward, Acosta later defended this sweetheart deal to the Trump transition team, explaining: I was told Epstein belonged to intelligence and to leave it alone.

Most recently, the U.S. attorneys office for the Southern District of New York brought agentle prosecutionagainst Epsteins pimp and fellow child molester, Ghislaine Maxwell. Federal prosecutors called a mere four girls who claimed to have been recruited and/or abused by Maxwell. They could have put dozens of her victims on the stand.

U.S Attorney Audrey Strauss points to a photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell during a news conference on July 2, 2020. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Most notably, the Southern District did not call thestar witness, Virginia Giuffre, who has openly named therich and powerful menshe says these creeps forced her to have sex with, including Prince Andrew, former Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz, former New Mexico governor and presidential candidate Bill Richardson, former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, French model scout Jean-Luc Brunel, and the hedge fund billionaire Glenn Dubin, among others.

(Times of London, Jan. 9, 2022: Alan Dershowitz asked Donald Trump to grant Ghislaine Maxwell a preemptive pardon.)

Virginia Roberts Giuffre (center) speaks at a news conference outside a Manhattan court where sexual assault claimants addressed a hearing following Jeffrey Epsteins death. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

A combination photo of the front pages of British newspapers on November 21, 2019, headlining the scandal surrounding Britains Prince Andrews involvement with accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. (AP Photo)

Immediately after the Southern District accidentally won five guilty verdicts against Maxwell, the prosecutors quietly revealed that, weeks earlier, theyddismissed all charges against the prison guardswho failed to check on Epstein for more than eight hours the night he allegedly committed suicide despite an explicit directive that they check on him every 30 minutes.

Not to brag but

July 25, 2019, 1:05 a.m.: @AnnCoulterDear Bureau of Prisons: Please get Jeffrey Epstein to a super Max prison pronto, or the people who want him dead will make sure we never know the truth. ACT NOW!

Aug. 10, 2019: Epstein found dead in his cell.

The feds not only didnotmove Epstein to a super-maximum security prison as some observers recommended, but they alsodid this:

The day before Epstein died, he was taken off suicide watch.

Against orders, his cellmate transferred elsewhere, leaving Epstein completely alone in his cell.

All the cameras on Epsteins floor were mysteriously broken.

Even the footage of his earlier suicide attempt had been mistakenly erased and the backup footage destroyed as a result of technical errors, according to assistant U.S. attorneys Jason Swergold and Maurene Comey.

How many times can they use the were completely incompetent defense? (Hey, does anybody know if this case implicates rich people?)

Maxwells brother soonannounced to the press and to anyone else who might be interested! that his sister was no snitch. She wouldnt rat out any of Epsteins fellow child molesters in exchange for a lighter sentence.

Maxwell is facing up to 65 years in prison, and her brother has just admitted she can name names.Hello? SDNY? Any thoughts about applying some pressure?

Kevin Maxwell and Isabel Maxwell stand in front of the federal courthouse in New York where their sister Ghislaine Maxwell was on trial for sex trafficking on December 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

Unfortunately, these are the same prosecutors who just did everything in their power to blow the case against her. My prediction of their next conversation with Maxwell:This is our last offer: 30 hours of community service and were not kidding! OK, 20 hours. Damn youre one tough negotiator.

Most strange, the ink wasnt dry on the guilty verdicts before one of the jurors ran to the press and announced that hedlied on his juror questionnaire. Although hed denied ever having been sexually molested, he had been! Not only that, but hoo boy did his experience with sex abuse sway the jurors during deliberations!

The defense immediately moved for a mistrial and the chatty juror moved to a villa in the south of France hes just inherited from an unknown relative. OK, the second part isnt true (that I know of), butare you kidding me??

Are prosecutors even investigating any contact between Maxwells representatives and the jurors? Will he be tried for perjury?

In this courtroom sketch, Judge Alison Nathan (upper left) reads instructions to the jury during Ghislaine Maxwells sex trafficking trial on December 20, 2021, in New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

However this ends, once its over, well never hear about Epstein again unlike, say, January 6, which we will neverstophearing about. If America got to vote, which story do you think they would find more interesting?

Which story is more important? Doesnt the public have a right to know how big Epsteins sex/blackmail club was, who among Americas ruling elite were compromised, and to what end?

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Ann Coulter: The Great Epstein Cover-up, Part 2

The person known today as Ann Coulter was born Jeremy Levinsohn in a village in New York in 1960. His parents were typical latte-drinking liberals, religiously conservative, but socially and politically radical. His father taught Russian Literature at CUNY and his mother was a social worker.

His childhood friend Rodger Mihalot described him, The Levinsohns were nice people, but his father was distant, so Jeremy seemed to seek a strong male figure in his life. Although they were Jewish, he often hung out at our church, and really seemed to spend a lot of time with Fr. Donatella Nowunn. I also think he was really looking to rebel against his overly liberal parents. Otherwise he was a typical kid, he liked to play cowboy, sailor and gladiator a lot. His favorite movie was always The Sheik, he really seemed to have a fascination with Arabs, I dont know why.

Ms. Coulter, a.k.a. Pudenda Shenanigans, in an undated photo taken in Key West.

In the 70s Jeremy went to Brandeis, where he majored in Sociology, with a minor in comparative religions. His lifelong fascination with Muslims really seemed to take root at Brandeis. But college roommate Ima Gaiboyye described an unhappy man, He was never really interested in women, but did go see the theater companys production of The Wizard of Oz 10 times, I thought he liked the girl who played the lead, he really talked about her outfit a lot. After college Jeremy just dropped off the face of the earth, we never heard from him again.

Jeremy drifted for awhile before finding himself in Key West. Co-worker Licky Dickenstein described these early years, Jeremy was a natural, I never saw anyone take to drag so quickly. Once he found his persona, he was Pudenda Shenanigans. For most of us drag was a part time thing, but Pudenda was 24-7, always in character, always in costume. She really shook things up, she was a goddess on stage.

Ms. Shenanigans and companion in New Orleans during Mardi Gras, 1987.

Former boss Phil Yoras recalled those heady days, Pudenda was really popular with all the celebrities who came in. She really worked the Republicans. Dennis Hastert, Rush Limbaugh, Bill OReilly, Dick Cheney, they all used to sit right up front for her shows. Arnold Schwarzenegger used to be her favorite, but once she dressed in lederhosen and tried to do My Favorite Things while sitting on his lap. That was the last time Arnold came in. Of course he left holding a plate in front of his pants, I dont know why.

By 1985 Ms Shenanigans was dating a Lebanese businessman, Ustahav Toubohls and the two were believed to be deliriously happy. Friends report Pudenda always had a fetish for Muslims and was considering a marriage proposal. But then she opened up the New York Times one day and saw a picture of Mr. Toubohls with a famous actress in New York. Former friend Gaivit Tuhym described the result, Pudenda was devastated, she couldnt stand seeing her Toubohls with another woman. She cried and cried, I miss my Toubohls, I want my Toubohls back! I dont think she ever forgave him, the New York Times, or Muslims in general.

After that Ms. Shenanigans disappeared for years, only resurfacing in the 90s as Ann Coulter. Her hatred for Muslims, gays and feminists is odd for her former coworkers. Long Dick Gone, a former co-worker stated, At first I thought there was something funny about this Ann Coulter. I mean heres a woman who claims to hate feminists, but is in her 40s, single, no kids, is very opinionated and outspoken and concentrates on her career. Ann Coulter is the biggest example of a feminist I ever saw. Then I noticed that in just the right light you could see that adams apple and thats when I recognized our little Pudenda Shenanigans, the hottest drag queen this side of Fire Island.Strap-On Veterans For Truth

Once they realized who Ann Coulter was, Strap-On Veterans For Truth was formed. Anns former friends and co-workers realized that her intense hatred of gays, feminists and Muslims was really self-loathing and continuing hurt from the loss of her beloved Toubohls. Although we know shes been through a lot, we feel hurt by her turning against everything she used to hold dear. We love you Ann, or Pudenda, or Jeremy. We respect whatever lifestyle of gender you choose. We just want you to be true to yourself and please stop the hatred. Come back to us and share the love of your friends and community again.

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Question: Is our ruling class trying to make us to think theyre a bunch of pederasts? Our media could not be less interested in Jeffrey Epsteins child molestation ring and, with the sole exception of the Palm Beach Police Department, every arm of government has bent over backward to bury the case.

(Who says our media and government cant work together?)

The jurys courageous delivery last week of five guilty verdicts against Epsteins pimp, Ghislaine Maxwell, was a sort of reverse jury nullification. The U.S. attorneys office the prosecution did everything it could to get an acquittal, but the jurors defied them.

As for media coverage, did you even know that the FBI found Epsteins cache of sex tapes labeled (name of underage girl) + (name of VIP) and then lost them?

Immediately after Epsteins arrest at Teterboro Airport in July 2019, the FBI executed a search warrant on his New York mansion. Following a daylong search, agents discovered a hidden safe in the closet of a fifth-floor dressing room, used a saw to break into it, and found an enormous collection of photos of naked girls, and CDs of the girls apparently having sex with influential men.

Then, the agents left abandoning the photos and CDs, with Epsteins employees free to wander about the place. As Kelly Maguire, FBI special agent in charge of the search, explained during Maxwells trial, they only had a warrant to search the house, but not to remove evidence evidence at the heart of the entire sex trafficking scheme.

It didnt occur to Maguire to leave a single agent behind to guard the CDs? How about the intern who just gets coffee?

Youll never guess what happened next.

The CDs and photographs disappeared. By the time the FBI returned with a new warrant four days later to remove the CDs and photos, they were gone. Later, after a few phone calls, Epsteins lawyer, Richard Kahn, returned the cache in two suitcases. I had no idea they were important! I was just tidying up!

Were the videos tampered with? Were all of the photos returned? Who knows!

This was testified to by Special Agent Maguire. Thats the last time I trust the lawyer of a pedophile! Boy, is my face red! Darn it! ... Oh well, what are you going to do?

(Before moving on, lets take a moment to honor the historic appointment of Kelly Maguire as FBI special agent. Another glass ceiling shattered!)

How could any search warrant for Epsteins residence fail to specify videos? The reason the tapes are kind of important is that it was perfectly clear certainly by 2019 that Epstein had no legitimate source of income to fund his Caligula lifestyle, and further, that he was farming out underage girls for sex to the rich and powerful with hidden cameras running everywhere. It sure looked like his underage sex ring was a blackmail/kompromat operation.

Obviously, the most important question is: On behalf of whom? The tapes of (underage girl) + (important person) would have gone a long way toward answering that. What did the search warrant specify, if not videos and photographs?

If I didnt know better, I might think that those in power dont want us to know anything about Epsteins sex-trafficking operation.

As further evidence that there is ABSOLUTELY NO COVER-UP: The New York Times has never breathed a single word about the CDs lost in the FBIs botched search. Nor has The Washington Post. Nor the Chicago Tribune. Nor the Los Angeles Times. Wait Ill make this easier: Heres a list of all the major U.S. newspapers that did report on Maguires breathtaking revelation:

1) The Miami Herald

2) The New York Post

The end.

Oddly, media in the rest of the world seemed to find Maguires testimony about the vanishing CDs somewhat more newsworthy. The story of the missing tapes was covered repeatedly in The Daily Telegraph (London), The Independent (United Kingdom), The Daily Mail (Ireland), Economic News (Russia) and the Daily Mail (U.K.), among others.

The totally not-a-cover-up gets weirder and weirder.

Epstein had vast wealth, and we still dont know where it came from. Normally, the IRS is extremely curious about unexplained flows of riches. Did the IRS decide in this case, Well, he may be a committed and energetic pedophile, but as far as we know, hes a conscientious taxpayer!

Similarly, there are vague claims that he made his money from investments. The SEC wasnt the least bit interested in finding out how he got this rich from secretive investment services?

And this: Epstein spent decades aggressively cultivating powerful, important men, quite a few from foreign countries evidently taping all their activities. Why wasnt the CIA concerned? Couldnt he have sold dirt on U.S. politicians to foreign intel agencies?

Finally, its odd that our government wasnt concerned about how much blackmail material Epstein had gathered on high-level U.S. officials. Doesnt the FBI try to prevent that sort of situation? Or the Secret Service?

How was it that all these agencies let Epstein keep up his activities for so long?

Theres much more to this story. Stay tuned for next week!

New York Times bestselling author and syndicated columnist Ann Coulter is a graduate of Cornell University and the University of Michigan Law School. Ann is a regular contributor to conservative news sites Human Events and Breitbart.

She is a native of New Canaan, Conn.

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Bill Maher will perform at the BJCC in Birmingham at 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 15. Real Time with Bill Maher returns to HBO Jan. 21. Find tickets on Ticketmaster.

AL.com spoke to Maher about why he actually loves performing in red states like Alabama, why political correctness is the enemy of comedy, how liberals and conservatives can get along and why American democracy is in big trouble.

(Note: This interview took place Jan 6.)

Youre hitting a lot of Southern cities on this tour: Birmingham, New Orleans, Chattanooga, Jacksonville. Youve said, during COVID, its harder to sell tickets in blue states, that liberal media are scaring people with their coverage, but In red states, its all good to go and people there are maybe more open to edgier humor. What do you like about performing in the South, and if anything, what surprises you about Southern audiences?

Bill Maher: I think you kinda just did my act for me there, all the things you mentioned. I attract mostly a liberal crowd, but liberal is different than woke. To me, woke, if we want to use that broad term, is something that is not an extension of liberalism. Its very often the opposite of what an old school liberal like me believes. Ive never been someone who was part of any specific party, per se. I usually vote Democratic, but it depends on the person. Certainly in the age of Trump, theyre never going to get me there with the Republicans. But there are many Republicans who are not Trump Republicans. And they have a good point, that there is that faction of the left that we will call woke whos gone of the deep end. I was in Nashville three or four months ago, I think the audience there was almost 50-50 between conservatives and liberals, which is quite a trick, I must say, in this era of a lack of bipartisanship, where everything is binary. Gender may not be binary, but politics sure is right now. It was great to see where there were people who dont agree politically who can get in the same room. There were a few groans from the right when I said something bad about them, and some from the left when that happened. But basically everyone laughed together. And we have to get back to that.

This country is falling apart at the seams. Half the people are not going to self-deport. You see these tweets and memes about owning and destroying the other side. Get over it. Youre not owning or destroying anybody. No ones going anywhere. We have to learn to live together again. So I find more of that spirit is possible in a place like the cities you mentioned, whereas San Francisco, thats going to be a little problematic for me. Theyre a little too politically correct. Theres going to be a lot of groaning at some of the things I say, and thats not what a comedy show is supposed to be. Political correctness has always been the enemy of comedy. Thats been my banner from the beginning.

Last summer, you started performing for the first time since February 2020. Nikki Glaser said on your HBO show she stopped performing because she didnt feel it was her type of crowd coming to see her, and you said it was sad that there is an ideological component to that. When you perform, whether youre on tour or doing your HBO show, do you still sense that comedy is partisan, or will most everyone laugh if the joke or idea is funny?

Its very partisan now. I mean, you look at late night shows, it used to be Johnny Carson, Jay Leno, even David Letterman -- you couldnt even tell me what their politics was. They played it down the middle. That was the playbook. But now, I think almost all shows cater to a liberal audience. And you have to basically echo the mantra of the left, whatever it is, on any certain topic -- I always call it the one true opinion -- you have to conform to the one true opinion on whatever the topic is. And that has superseded getting laughs. Thats not where comedy should be. Thats not the game I play, certainly. As people who watch my show over the years know, I often will confront my own audience who will often groan or somehow react negatively to something I say, and I dont apologize for it. Ill tell them I think theyre wrong. And slowly, its kind of nice, over the years now, I feel like Ive gotten much more of a crowd that is open-minded. Theyre not the usual late night crowd who just wants to hear what they already believe told back to them. First of all, thats boring. Its not funny. And it doesnt enlighten us. Thats not what Im interested in. And I feel like the crowd we get now is much more on that page from the get-go.

Youve talked about how its dangerous when we see people on the other side literally as the enemy, that were living in a partisan hell where trying to convince people to believe what you believe doesnt work. When you were a kid, the adults never talked politics. It was considered impolite. But these days, when its oft-discussed and gets very impolite, how do you think we can tone it down the tribalism and ugliness?

Youre right. That is a theme Ive hit many times, that we shouldnt talk about it all the time. Facebook is the great example of that. Facebook, when it started was not political. It was just about sharing your photographs and talking about who got fat from high school days. It was your high school yearbook come to life. It was humble brags and cat pictures. Then it became arguing with some kid you were in chem lab with about ivermectin or the Supreme Court, or whatever. And this idea that we have to constantly be arguing politics with everybody -- thats what has to stop. Because when you take the politics out of the discussion -- and this is coming from a person who made his living talking politics -- you find that people are just people, and you cant hate them. I constantly say it, you can hate Trump. You cant hate all the people who like him -- its half the country. And you cant set yourself up as some sort of superior moral paragon, because this is your political belief, and somebody else has another one. There are obviously areas where, yes, if somebodys advocating cannibalism, I think you can claim the moral high ground if youre anti. I feel like thats the Achilles heel of the left right now. They identify issues mostly by what they can feel superior to another person for.

COVID is a great example. If Im for more safety, Im a better person than you. Well, we can take that to the nth degree and never leave our houses. I believe we tried that in 2020: The great medical advancement of hiding. It doesnt make you a better person if youre wearing three masks or if you want 10 booster shots. But that is the subtext to all of that, I think. First of all, its not true. It doesnt make you a better person. And medical matters are completely debatable. This idea that the medical establishment should be able to say, Just do what we say. When have we ever been wrong? A lot would be my answer to that. Youve been wrong a lot. You told us that the vaccines would get us out of this. Well they didnt. What they do is they stop death. But you said they would stop transmission of the disease. They dont stop you from getting it, and they dont stop you from transmitting it. What they do is stop you from dying if you do get it. Well thats very different than what you said a year ago. So dont just stand there in your white coat saying We have all the answers. You dont. And just to throw in with Dr. Fauci doesnt mean youre a morally superior person. That attitude is what annoys people, I think, mostly about the left.

Ive also heard you talk about liking people you didnt think you were going to like, conservatives like Ann Coulter, how you cant help but like them. And youve had polarizing figures on your show...

Exactly. Thats been from the very beginning. Ive always gotten along with the conservatives who did the show. First of all, its a debate show. Unlike other shows which dont allow the other voices on, I welcome. I want the people I dont necessarily agree with politically. Maybe theyll say something that surprises me and enlightens me and makes me see something a different way. Even better. But even if they dont, theyre allowed to have their opinion if its different than mine. It doesnt mean I have to hate them for it, and Ive never hated them for it. Ive always gotten along with the conservatives. They tend to be happy warriors. They tend to be the kind of people who smile even though they may be saying something I dont think is really the way this country should go. Even the Trumpers who, again like I say, you can hate him, but you cant hate all of them. There are too many of them.

We have to find a way, or else we are going to devolve into some civil war. Theres a frightening number of people who already think it would be a fine idea to have some sort of second Civil War or some secessionist movement or break apart. Its just not possible. The first Civil War, the country was geographically divided. Were not like that anymore. Were all marbled in together. California has 4 million Trump voters. What are we going to do with them if California becomes its own state or part of the new liberal America? Its ridiculous. We have to get along. The way to get along is to understand that its a big country with lots of people who dont think the way you do. I dont know why people cant do that. They do it in relationships. Does your wife or husband think about things exactly the same you do? No. The three most important words are not I love you. Theyre let it go. You cant make everyone agree with you on everything. We have to stop trying.

Marjorie Taylor Greene was recently and permanently suspended by Twitter after violating the companys misinformation policy. Youve spoken in the past about how refreshing it is for people when someone is politically incorrect in their rhetoric, obviously depending on the substance of what they are saying. Even in her case and obviously Donald Trump, when a company like Twitter with the platform it has removes someone altogether, how do you feel about it?

I think the answer to bad speech is more speech. Im certainly not the first one to say that. You can find that from esteemed people on the Supreme Court over the years, mostly liberals. That is the answer to bad speech. Its not to stop it. And Twitter doesnt have any real calling to do that. Theyre a private company. Obviously I understand that they can. But they, for example, shut down debate on the lab leak theory and had to walk that back, so did Facebook. Now theres no political dimension to how the virus started. It should not be a political issue at all. It is outrageous that they said you cant even talk about the idea that this virus may have started in a lab. Why? It may have. It was always a possibility. Everyone now agrees that could be the origin of the virus. So just put that up as your lodestar. This is the company that said you cant even talk about that. Thats dangerous. I dont want that company making the rules about what we can and cant hear. If Marjorie Taylor Greene said something nutty, then let people swarm her on Twitter and point out how nutty it is. And lets let a thousand flowers bloom. But Im never going to be the one who lines up with censorship, no matter who it is.

Finally, tomorrow is January 6th. You said recently youre concerned about the next election, you asked, What happens on January 20th, 2025, when Trump shows up despite election results that say otherwise? Youve also asked, What do you do when there are people in our government who do not believe in our form of government? Do you feel any better or worse about this one year later? Do you think democracy is really in trouble?

Very much so. I hoped the bell I was ringing when I did that editorial about Trump and whats going to happen in the next election. First of all, he is definitely going to run. Hes definitely going to get the nomination. And hes definitely not going to concede. He hasnt conceded this election. The difference with the next one is he will have people in place who will back him up. Thats what he didnt have in 2020. He thought he did. He thought anyone who had an R by their name would be on his side. He didnt count on the fact that there were Republicans with integrity, who told him Im sorry, sir. We looked and we looked and we looked, and you did not win this election. Hes replacing those people. Thats what theyre doing. Thats what I was trying to tell people, and of course other people have made the point to, that behind the scenes they are working right now to put people in place so that next time when he gets on the phone with the secretary of state whose job it is to count the votes and says, as he did in Georgia, I need you to find 11,000 votes, they will say, Were on it, sir. You know what? Good news, we found 12,000. Thats what I worry about. Hes not going to go away as easily as he did in 2020 next time. And thats why January 2025 is going to be where the rubber hits the road in this country. Weve been heading towards this cliff for a very long time, and we always think were the country where it cant happen. Well, we thought that about terrorism. We thought that about everything. Were not exempt. We are the country where it can happen. And when you have two claimants to the throne, I dont know what happens. I dont know what happens in January 2025. But I know if you want to pick a time to take a vacation out of the country, that would be a good time to do it.

Bill Maher will perform at the BJCC in Birmingham at 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 15. Real Time with Bill Maher returns to HBO for season 20 on Jan. 21.

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